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WV WORKS State PlAN 2009 - 2010- View the Plan

West Virginia's Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program is WV WORKS. It is based on the goals of assisting economically dependent and at-risk families to become self supporting, enhancing the well-being of children, and on assisting families near the poverty level to remain self-sufficient.

WV WORKS provides monthly cash assistance to eligible families. Most people who receive a monthly WV WORKS check also receive SNAP and Medicaid, but these are not guaranteed based just on receipt of a check.
Eligibility

There are 2 steps to the eligibility process. Step 1 is a gross income test. The family's gross income must be below an amount that varies by family size. If this income test is passed, certain other deductions are applied to the income to determine the amount of the benefit. These are: 40% of earned income; child care expenses; and a portion of redirected child support.  There is 1 incentive payment paid monthly based on case circumstances, a child support incentive/pass-through payment when child support is redirected to the Bureau for Child Support Enforcement.

In addition to financial eligibility, the client is required to perform 2 additional tasks before final eligibility is determined. Orientation to WV WORKS may be done in a group or individually. Applicants are required to attend orientation to learn about available activities and services and for an explanation of the 60-month lifetime limit for receipt of benefits. In addition, each adult or emancipated minor is required to negotiate a personal responsibility contract. This contract is an agreement between the applicant and DHHR which identifies goals, objectives and actions that must be taken in order to become self-sufficient. The personal responsibility contract may be renegotiated at any time; it is an ever-changing document. Within the first 45 days a home visit will be completed by the WV WORKS Case Manager. Failure of the active recipient to adhere to the personal responsibility contract, without good cause, results in application of a sanction to the household. Sanctions are as follows:

    * 1st sanction = 1/3 reduction in the total check amount for 3 months
    * 2nd sanction = 2/3 reduction in the total check amount for 3 months
    * 3rd and any subsequent sanction = case ineligibility for 3 months

My dad has had to move to his new job spot and now im staying with my mom, 2 brothers and 4 sisters in one house. and my dad isnt making enought money to support us. and its really hard on the family for my dad to be moved away and the cashed comes in every 2 weeks and it just isnt enought for the size of our family.

Hi there,

I am 37 years old married to my permanant disabled wife which she's has Ellersdownlouse desease for the last 10 years now. We have three boys, one in high school and two that are in 5th grade, they are twins.  I lost my job and bills are building up and our vehicle is broke down. We need financial help, I don't know where else to turn. We have a mortgage and we can't keep our heads above water. My wife and I are very much afraid of loosing everything we have.

Thank you for your support,

Dave 

I am an independant businessman.  I have a company for sale.  It is my only hope of making it out alive. I have worked my whole life to have something but its being taken away due to credit card bills.  I have an $12,800 credit card bill that I can not pay.  My business is failing after a decade of success due to the economy.  I am looking for a buyer that would be interested in buying half of the business so that I can pay my credit card bill and and continue to support my family through my life long dream of running my own business.  Anyone interested in buying into a great business please let me know.

chuck

I really need money, I have a family that as a man I know I am to To support but things didn't work out and soon I think we are Going to end up on the street I am loosing the house we live in Some time in the beggining of december. Need help immediatly, don't Know how much I need if you can help please send me financial help My if this post is still here after The end of december 2009 it is highly possible its to late

I NEED HELP TO PAY MY BILLS IT IS A VERY DIFFCULT TIME FOR ME AND MY FAMILY AND I NEED SOMONES HELP TO PAY MY BILLS.I AM IN NEDD OF 800 DOLLARS. I AM BEHIND ON EVERYTHING AND I AM AT THE END OF MY ROPE. PLEASE SOME ONE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hi, everyone.

i have 1 month old son i really need help i cant work cause of the baby,

we dont have money we  couldn't pay the rent my mother in law give us place to live but i dont have any house item i dont have kitchen cabinet and sink, or table, sleeping  bed, before we lived happy but now my husband he cant make any money we can't aford anythink please if you know any body they want to move old kitchen cabinet  please please let me know i dont want gift or any money  i just need house stuff thank you for reading my messege.. god bless you..

Hello all. I have been a musician all my life and struggled with paying rent and expenses for my family for years. Through all the jobs I have done in my life I know every aspect of commercial business and also the many aspects of the healthcare industry. I have not been able to secure a day job for a year and the band I play for gets 8 dollars a nite (for myself) for 6 hours of entertainment. I have never been a person to beg but my family is falling apart and I do not think I can make rent this month from the $191 per week Unemployment check which is more than likely going to end after a year. I realize many people have a very simular or worst situation. I am asking for help. If you would like to employ me that would be the best. If you could donate some money we would appreciate it greatly. Go to my web page at phillwix@hotmail.com , you can see who I am. Favors will not be forgotten. Thank you for reading my post.

I am in need of financial help. I am a professional home inspector in Texas and when the home market crashed so dd my business. I am currently working at Walmart to help but the pay there barely pays my basics. I am married with 3 children and I need a break for once in my life. I know there is someone out there that has the means to help and I will make the most out of the help. I would be happy to meet with you and prove that I am a real person in need. If i cant get help I will lose my home and I am not sure what I will do at that point because I have no family to help. I know this is the story of thousands of Americans right now so if you dont help me help someone if you can, I would. Thanks and God Bless.

I'm an 18 year old mother of two beautiful children, my son (2) and my daughter (10 months). I've literally been through hell and back. I conceived my first child when i was raped a week after my 15th birthday. My mother told me I couldnt get an abortion. I gave birth to him march 16, 2006. When I finally built up the courage to get this man in trouble they told me that i needed to take a paternity test as well as my son and that man, so i did. A year and a half after they finally told me, which i knew it was, Pauls son. So I had to face him in court. It was the hardest thing i will ever have to face in my life, besides life itself. They ended up giving him 14 months probation and no jail time, because they said that he was an important part of the community, because he has his own business. Ive tried to get child support from him up until the child support specialist kristy P. told me that he would get visitation rights, and i will never ever let my son meet him... he's a horrible man. If he did that to me when i was just a baby, who knows what he'd do to my son. Then I tried getting help from human services by getting a bridge card. that did not work. Still to this day i have been sending them applications, and they send me blank ones. I am not able to get a job because my mother is working a 2nd shift job from 4 pm to 4 am. Every day its a struggle for me. Worrying about whether or not im going to have food in a couple of days, wondering if im going to have a home in a couple of weeks. i usually have to go next door and borrow money that i cannot pay back. since my son has been born we've moved to 15 different homes, because my stepdad was on the run, whom now is in prison. My dad is unnable to take care of me and my babies because hes working at a pallet shop making 40 cents a pallet. Ive been kicked out from my mother and had to sleep in detroit in the dugouts on the baseball field, my mother, behind my back, was getting money and foodstamps for me and my son, and was claiming us and i never seen a penny of it, when im the one who has to borrow all of this money for food and daipers pfft, even toilet paper. Im 18 and only weigh 85 lbs... because of having to starve in order for my children to eat. My mother is a greedy and very bad person. i love her with all my heart. but she sees me struggle and cry everyday because of all this pressure i have on me and she smiles about it literally. I have no money for daipers, tampons, clothes and shoes for myself, food, and if i get kicked out i will not have rent. Ive lost hope and this is why i turned to this... because my neighbor told me that people will donate money to me and my babies. Ive tried getting into section 8 and after six months of being on the waiting list they told me that i need a source of income to get a house so i was rejected. I have lived with my friends who were still in high school, but had no money to pay for rent, so i had to come back to my moms. Ive tried getting my GED, but as soon as my stepdad went to prison my mom cried for me to come back so i could watch my 11 year old sister, basically my other daughter i have to raise and had to raise since i was 11, i miss basically my whole 5th grade year taking care of her when she was about 2 years old. Im more of the mother to my mom. i have all this pressure on me that i wish could just be lifted off of me. ive prayed everynight for god to help me get my life on track so that i didnt have to depend on people who are only only wanting me to live with them (my mom) for free money, its time i have to do something else. i have all these things i have to do like, I have to get a car. I have to get my own place. I have to get my GED, then i want to go to cosmetology school so i have an income for my babies. I mean all these things i have to worry about because im a teenager like collage and getting on my own so i dont have to worry about being homeless, getting a job, plus all of the things that adults have to worry about. Im so broken right now inside, because I need help so bad. i can not stay here with my mother anylonger last year my grandma struggled to get me 40$ for christmas and my mother stole it to get alcohol and a couple of months ago she admitted it. the christmas before that my stepdad got locked up and my mom had to take back all of our christmas presents to get him out of jail. And everynight at 4 am she has all her freinds from work come home and party. there is never a night where me and my babies sleep through the night. help us. all i want is to know that i have a home for my children that they can call home. i dont want them moving from schools to different schools like ive had to my whole life because my mom chose to be with a man who had a warrent. i want the best for my children as every parent does. I just need help from someone. anyone. My daughters father was abusing me and my son, doing pills, finally after 2 years ive just left him a couple months ago... because i do not want that for my babies, i know there is a better life out there then this. i want my babies out of this life im living. i want them to have a good normal home that i never had. i love them so much and im crying right now because it hurts me so bad that no one wants to just help me get started. ive even thought of adopting them out to a better family because i have nothing to give them or any one to help me. i need to get my babies in a stable home and a good enviroment. im lost and dont know what else to do. please help us. i need any help i can get. any money i can get even if its a dime or a nickel. god bless you and i hope you or someone you know will help us out, i cannot live in fear and depression any longer because im affraid i will lose my precious babies or even my life. thank  you for your time and if your reading this your adorable. xoxo. please please please help us. 

A.Kraemer

5689 nightingale st. dearborn heights mi. 48127

please help  if there any one out ther who likes to help someone for christmas who is really in need i am asking not for my self but know someone who really needs help this man and his son has lost so much this year of 2008 and left very depressed. he lost his wife on feburary who died at his feet at 4:30a.m. she had been sick for a long time but not expected to die at this moment.they just had started buying their home and she lived 1 and half months after they bought it. she was the one who had always paid the bills and the husband is now behind on everything because he didnt know all of what they owed. he has a water shut. and nothing left to give his son or even christmas dinner. the boy is 16 years old. everyone no matter how old likes something on christmas day even if its just something to eat for christmas dinner he is unable to work and the son still in school. when he lost his wife he lost a income to. if someone can help in anyway please contact me. i know he has a hard with even personal items wash powder toliet paper dish soap bleach deodorant  shampoo ect please help him

Thank you to anyone who supports this site and helps all the struggling parents. god bless you.

I am a young single mother of three. I had a very, very difficult and high risk pregnancy, delivery, and long recovery after birth this year. I almost died twice once from blood loss at birth and then from infection. I was in intensive care for a week after birth. I was so stressed out about money my baby girl was born a month early. We lost everything because I couldn't work for several months before and after birth. Our family car got reposessed. We got evicted from our home a month after the baby was born, We are currently on food stamps, my fiance works 80+ hours a week and we still can't make ends meet. we haven't been able to pay any of our utility bills for almost three months, this month we have no rent collected for december, Im trying to sell my car so that i can help out, I am also working  part time. I'm terrified we will get evicted again. both our income add up to much a month and our rent and all utilities are seperate water, gas, electric,etc. I'm about to loose my mind, my faith and our home. If you think you can help us please in any way please contact us.

erika, haydee792003@yahoo.com

i am a mother of 3 on asistenc

my little girl is 6 and growing fast having a hard time with colthing for her .

my son is 7 and hase ODD ADD with his problems he need to eat health and with being on asistenc its hard to keep up with his diet and clothing for the pills he is on makes him grow fast and gain what .

my oldist boy is 13 and well he is not health  he has so mennie heath probles its so heard to keep up with the 3 of them finachale 

i cant get a job for i have learning disabilitys and curvical caser .

if anny one can help use for clothing and christmas my kids and i would be so gratfull 

my email is kathy_trout@hotmail.com and my addres is 358 #4 grey street brantford ont n3s4x4

my home # is 519-720-0955

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